Kool Aid Experiment: Part One

I know I have been absent for awhile. I have been blogging over at my Hogwarts site this summer. However fall term is coming to an end in few weeks so you will be seeing more of me here.
Today, I am totally obsessed with the idea of dying my own yarn. I ordered some Knit Picks Bare Superwash in the fingering weight and picked up some colors of Kool Aid. I have been reading and watching videos about this process and am feeling confident that I can do this!! Part two of this experiment will be conducted later this week, so stay tuned for the dying process. Right now I want to take a little poll on which colors you want to see me dye. Here are your choices:
Combo 1 - Yellow, Orange, Red
Combo 2 - Pink and Blue
Combo 3 - Light Pink to a Purple Variegated
Be sure to cast your vote by noon tomorrow. Since I will be dying the yarn as soon as the mailman brings the yarn!!!

Preschool, snow, and knitting....

Well let me start by saying that time is flying by. Not only because I haven't updated my blog in forever, but also because I have to think about preschool for Ollie already. He is only two and yet I have to decide if I enroll him for next fall or wait another year. The decisions are driving me crazy. For starters, I really am not ready to think about how fast my baby is growing up and that he might be in kindergarten in two years. And also because I don't know what all I really want in a preschool. So that is my rant for today, since we went to visit our first preschool today.

After that we had to go out and play in the snow. Of course it was only for a minute but it was fun anyway. We would have stayed out for longer, but Ollie's mittens would not stay on his hands and I was not going to let him try to play in the snow with out them!! Here he is running around and lovin' it!



One of my resolutions this year is to knit a bunch of socks (the other to knit the sweaters I just got yarn for) and I am off to a good start so far. I signed myself up for a sock class on how to knit 2 socks on one needle at a time. So the supplies I ordered from Knit Picks came today. I got the book and needles I need for the class and some yummy yarn. The Knit Picks Felici in the Gelato colorway. I am thinking of making some Jaywalkers or cable ribbed socks with this yarn. I have to add that it is so soft!



I also have been working on the Waving Lace Socks from Interview's Favorite Socks book. I am knitting them up in Regia Silk which Hubby got me for Christmas. I have to say it is also a lusciously soft yarn!

I also finished my first pair of sock weight yarn socks this week. I knit them up in a simple ribbed pattern to show off the Harry Potter yarn I scored from Nextvangogh. (Thanks again by the way!) The colorway is Dumbledore. So in love with these!

Well, I will end by saying a sock knitting addict has been born!

First Post

So I decided to give this blogging thing a try again. Hopefully I can keep up with things better this time.

Lots going on to tell about. First I wanted to post some pictures of Ollie from Halloween. We took him trick-or-treating for the first time this year. He was really excited about it and we went with our neighbors and their two girls. We went to a few houses on our street and Ollie was not scared of some of the neighbors who put masks on (one even dress as the family guy.) Ollie now associates the term 'trick-or-treat' with candy and says YUM, when he talks about it!

I have been knitting like crazy lately. I have a full plate for the upcoming holiday season. I did manage to get some hats finished before starting on gifts. Here is my first fair isle project, a Norwegian star ear flap hat for who else but Ollie.

I also got my hat attack hat in the mail yesterday. It is knit up in some luxurious Malabrigo (now I have to say YUM). And the package had four skeins of Knit Picks Wool of the Andes and two skeins of Palette! I couldn't have imagined death would be so sweet!